On 1 July 2022, the accused who was staying with his parents had a dispute with his family members over his behaviour and he became violent. The family members then sought refuge at the deceased’s place of residence. On the next morning when the family members returned home the accused was still violent and he blocked them from entering the house. The deceased arrived and tried to talk to the accused, but the accused stabbed him with a kitchen knife on the left side of the lower region of the back near the ribs. The post mortem report states that... More
The two accused persons appeared before this court facing a charge of murder as defined in s 47 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23]. More
The accused persons who are juveniles aged 16 years and 17 years respectively pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder as defined in s 47(1) of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform (Act) [Chapter 9:23] (the Criminal Law Code). The two accused persons who are cousins in that their mothers are blood sisters tendered pleas of guilty to the lesser charge of culpable homicide. More
The accused pleaded not guilty to a charge of murdering one Witness Chisora on 15 September 2018 at Chiruma 1 Village Chief Nyamaropa Madziwa. It was alleged that the accused axed the deceased on the head when deceased forced his entry into one Talent Kanyongo Madziwa’s bedroom where the accused was sleeping with the said Talent. The deceased on being struck on the head sustained a deep cut from which the deceased died. More
: There is nothing victim friendly about a murder. In the normal course of things, the courts usually do not concern themselves with which unit of the Zimbabwe Republic Police conducts investigations into a particular crime. In this case, we were however taken aback and found it odd that a homicide was assigned to the police’s Victim Friendly Unit. The officer who conducted the investigations confessed that she had no clue in murder investigations. Such conduct can easily cause injustice to the victims of crime where an accused then walks free not because they did not commit the crime but... More
